9-letter words containing p, e, l
- asphodels — Plural form of asphodel.
- asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- b complex — vitamin B (complex)
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- backpedal — to press backward on the pedals of a bicycle, as to brake
- backplane — A board to which the main circuit boards of a computer may be connected and that provides connections between them.
- backplate — a plate of armour which guards the back
- bad apple — a person with a corrupting influence
- bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
- bakeapple — the fruit of the cloudberry
- baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
- balled up — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
- basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bed place — a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bee plant — any of various plants much visited by bees for nectar and pollen
- bel paese — a mild creamy Italian cheese
- bell pull — a handle, rope, or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or servant's bell
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
- belly pan — a plate enclosing the bottom of an automotive vehicle or the like below the chassis.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.